Lab 06:
Online or Face-to-face?

Let’s get building

Lab
Week 6
Author

Dr. Gordon Wright

Published

November 14, 2023

Overview of today’s lab activities

  1. Review the Ethics Page on the VLE

  2. Sign up for a Qualtrics account here https://goldpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/login

  3. Review the Template Qualtrics file for an example Information sheet, consent and debrief

Exciting progress so far!

You’ve identified an exciting area of research and critically evaluated a relevant paper.

Time to put all that hard work and careful thought into practice.

Between now and the end of term, you will build and obtain ethical approval for your studies.

We are all in the process of marking Critical Proposals, and we are seeing some wonderful application of the topics and concepts raised in the module so far.

Some of you are making impressive claims about what you are going to do. Fantastic!

Don’t push too hard, yet!

Please remember, this is supposed to be a modest size project, with focus on following the steps from initial idea, critique, development, Ethics, data collection and preparation, analysis and write-up.

We don’t want any single step to be too daunting or labour-intensive. We want you to enjoy the process as much as possible, and think carefully about each step.

The Mini-Dissertation ‘rules’

  • Your ultimate individually written up Mini-Dissertation project MUST conform to the following definitive rules:
  • 2x2 ANOVA design with 2 categorical IVs (each with 2 levels) and a single continuous DV
  • You must obtain ethical approval and prove individual involvement in the process of application
  • You must make a sample size estimation / Power calculation
  • You must collect data online and individually contribute to group data collection efforts

Your Mini-Dissertation final submission must comprise:

Submission Requirements

  • a 2500 word APA7 empirical paper with a critical reflection and complete reference list

  • Open Data - a single, cleaned, clearly-labelled data set in Excel format

  • Open Materials - a complete, replication-ready materials document detailing materials relevant to your submission

Running Experiments online or face to face

See today’s worksheet on the VLE